Means for securing rails to ties.



J. W. KUMMER & G. JORGENSBN.

MEANS FOR SECURING RAILS T0 TIES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3,1912.

1,039,417, Patented Sept. 24, 1912.

UhlllTEit) t%llATiE% PATENT UFFlWE.

JOHN W. KUMMER-AND GEORGE JORGENSEN, 0F VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

MEANS FOR SECURING" RAILS T0 TIES.

Specification of Letters Patent Patented Sept. 11512.

Application filed May 3, 1912. Serial No. 894,896.

To (ZZZ whom it may-unwewa Be it known that we JOHN W. Kimmie. and Gnonon Jonornsnn, citizens of the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada, respectively, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia.

Canada, have invented a new and useful Means for Securing Rails to Ties, of which the follmving is a Sl:)0(lfi l:),tl0ll.

This invention relates to an improved rail seat and means tor securing the rail to the same and the seat to the tie.

it is designed. to be stamped out of sheet metal and to dispense with the use of spikes as a. securing means and to provide a greater area ot'contact of metal on the material of the tie.

This invention is supplementary to the fastening means on which a. patent applica tion Was filed on the 4th. of March, 1912, under Serial No. 681;185, now pending before the Office.

The following specification particularly describes the invention, reference being: made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of the rail seat, Fig. 2, a similar View of the movable clamp member. Fig. 3, a, similar view of the two side members of the seat securing means to the tie. Fig. t, the bottom con neet-io'n. l i'g. 5, the taper cotter by which the seat is secured to the tie, and Fig. 6, a dress section through the railshowing' its attachment to the tie byv this fastening. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective View of one of the bolts employed in our device.

,llnthese drawings 2 represents the rail an d 3 the tie. The railseat comprises a plate portion 5 conforming approximately to the width of the tie and extending beyond the Width of the rail flange on each side. On one side a portion 6 is sheared from it and bent upward to engage the upper side of the rail flange. On the opposite side of the rail is secured an adjustable clamp 7. preferably oft cast metal, -shaped at one end to engage the upper side of the rail flange, and at the other having abutment crrations 8 to engage an upward projez: l sheared from the plate and upwardly turned to eler a square edge toward the rail. This clamp member '7 has an elongated hole 12 for a bolt 10 having a squareneelt seat plate 5. Downwardly bent from each side of the plate immediately under the rail llanL'e, are portions 15 which divide below the bend and their ends are upwardly bent to :l'orin two cotter receiving hook menibers 16. Between these fit correspondlug downwardly bent hook members 17 of the side securing members 18 which are inwardly turned. as at 12), below the depth of the tie and each has an aperture 20 at the bend to receive the downwardly turned end 21 of the under connecting member 22.

When the taper cotters 25 driven between the upwardly turned ends 16 oi the seat plate and the downwardly turned end of the member 18 upwardly projecting from the under side of the tie, the seat plate is securely tightenedonto the wood oi the tie and this held may be rendered more elt'ective by having; the ends of the seat plate or their corners dowrnvardly turned slightly, as at 14, to otter penetrating edges or points, "which may be driven into the wood and will prevent lateral displacement of "the seat plate on the tie. It found neecssarv. a similar provision may be made along the edges of the under connection plate The seat plate being securely fastened on the tie, the rail flange may be inserted under the upwardly turned member 6, and the clamp member 7 bolted tightly down on the flange on the other side and the rail will thus be securely but not too rigidly fastened down on the tie. With the except-ion of the member 7, the whole may be stamped out of sheet metal of such thickness as'mav be found satisfactory. If thought desirable, the ends of the hook members 16 and 17 may be produced beyond the width of the cotter and may be bent inward and welded against the members l5 and 18 but this will not be necessary unless very thin plate is used.

Although specifically described as applicable to a wooden tie, the same means of securing may be made use of with possibly slight n'iodilieations to a concrete tie.

llavingr now arrtieularly described our invc -tion we hercbv declare tl claim as new and desire to be mralcatell in by letters Patent, is:

1... .st means for seei'zring a rail to a tie, said means com arising a plate of sheet metal having a portion sheared along three sides to tit a punched square 'aperture 11 in the, Itoward the rail and bent upward from the who 1; "we

means for securing the seat plate to the underside of the tie. I

2. A means for securing a rail to a tie,

said means comprising a plate of sheet metal having a portion on one side of the rail seat slrearedi along the sides. nearer to the rail "seat and bent u ward to engage the upper side of the rail angei a similar sheared por- 7 tion on the other si e of the rail seat but upwardly bent a short distance only abdve the face of the plate, a clamp member designed to bear on the rail flange and having at theother end abutment notches to engage the edge of the upwardly beht portions of the plate and anelongated aperture to take a bolt passed through a square aperture in the plate close to the flange, and means for securing the seat plate to the underside of the/tie."

3. A' means for securing a rail to a tie, said means comprising a late of sheet metal having a portion sheared along three sides nearer to the rail seat and bent upward to engage the upper side of the -rail flange, a similar sheared portion on the other side of the rail seatbut upwardly bent a short distance only abovethe face vof the plate, a square bolt aperture in the plate between this upwardly bent edge and the rail seat, hook members integral with and. downwardly bent from the seat plate, said hook members being spaced apart to receive a corresponding hook member projecting upward from the underside of the tie, and a connecting plate on the underside of the tie between the upwardly projecting hook mem- 4. Means for securing a rail to a tie, said means comprising a bearing plate conformi a connecting plate extending across the underside of the tie, means for removably securing a side plate to each end of said connecting plate and means for connecting the side plates. of the bottom to the side plates extending downward from the bearing plate at the top, said means comprising two cotter holding members on one spaced a art to re ceive a correspondinv cotter hol ber of the other and a taper cotter driven through the three cotter holding'members.

5. A means for securing a ra l to a tie, said means comprising a bearing plate conforming approximately to the width-of the tie and extending beyond the width of the rail flange, said bearing-plate having fixed means for holding downthe flange of the rail on one side and adjustable removable means for holding it down on the other,

, means forsecuring the rail seat to the tie comprising an under connecting plate having downwardly turned ends to enter apertures in side members bent under the connecting plateand extending upward beyond the half depth of the tie, said member being downwardly turned to form a cotter holding hook and designed to enter between'two corresponding cotter holding hooks-integral with and downwardly projecting from the bearing plate and a taper cotter passing through the hook members.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this 'specificatioiiain the presence of'two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN W. KUMMER. a GE()RGE JORGEN SEN.

.Witusses:

fftowLAND BRITTAIN, ,'FREDERIC JAMES Hrsn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for flve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

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